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As biodiversity is coming under serious pressure, with around one in four species currently threatened with extinction, the European Commission has adopted an ambitious EU Biodiversity Strategy to halt the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services in th ...

According to the United Nations, at least 17% of the Earth’s surface waters and 10% of coastal and marine areas should be protected. The current 13 000 protected areas are insufficient to ensure the survival of the Earth’s biodiversity. EU development pol ...

Freshwater ecosystems are among the most degraded and threatened ecosystems at the global scale. Given the likelihood that demand for available water resources in Europe and worldwide will increase in the future, water ecosystem services need to be protec ...

Agricultural land covers almost half of Europe’s territory. Technological development, mechanisation, agro-chemicals and genetic research have led to structural modifications in farming practices and put pressure on the environment, leading to soil deplet ...

JRC Scientific and Technical Research Report presenting the results of the 'Assessment and modeling of available forest resources in Europe for energy supply' project. The project “Assessment and modeling of available forest resources in Europe ...

Book presenting the state of the Congo basin forests in 2010, concerning the deforestation patterns, the trends in forest sustainable management and the threats to biodiversity. The forests of Central Africa are the subject of intense debate worldwide. Th ...

Article presenting a matrix approach to assessing REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation) performance of countries with low monitoring capacities. Estimating emissions from deforestation and degradation of forests in many deve ...

Article presenting a quantative estimation of the water retention of salt affected soils using soil survey information. Soil water retention (SWR) at-0.1,-33,-1500 and-150000 kPa matric potentials and available water content (AWC) were estimated from info ...

JRC Scientific and Technical Research Report approaching aspects relating to the revision of cod management plans. The STECF Expert Working Group (EWG 12-07) on Management plans part 2 met in Edinburgh, Scotland from 18 to 22 of June 2012. The meeting p ...

Article presenting estimatations of the the carbon (C) stock changes from living forest biomass for all countries of the world, in order to complete the Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) sector in Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Re ...

Article presenting the results of a a case study on sustaining forest landscape connectivity under different land cover change scenarios. Managing forest landscapes to sustain functional connectivity is considered one of the key strategies to counteract t ...

JRC Scientfic and Technical Research Report assessing the status of demersal and small pelagic stocks in the Mediterranean Sea against the proposed FMSY reference point, and carrying out short and medium term forecasts. The Expert Working Group meetin ...

JRC Scientific and Technical Research Report scoping the preparation of Impact Assessments for new management plans on the following groups of stocks: a) Impact Assessments for a new plan for cod, herring, sprat (and flounder) in the Baltic Sea and b) Imp ...

JRC Scientific and Technical Research Report providing results of tests on the robustness of the target fishing mortality (F trgt) and biomass trigger (B trg) used on the harvest control rule (HCR) of the Baltic pelagic stocks. This work replies to a requ ...

Conference contribution presenting a method developed for the TREES-3 project (which produces estimates of tropical forest cover changes during the period 1990 to 2010), for the automatic processing of year 2010 with the assessment of performance of this ...

JRC Scientific and Technical Research Report containing the presentations made by JRC staff at the second Stakeholder Meeting (held in January 2012) in support of the Commission's Thematic Strategy for Air Pollution (TSAP). Although efforts of the EU ...

JRC Scientific and Technical Research Report giving an overview of spatial information used for mapping and modelling ecosystem services according to the scientific literature, and evaluating the potential contribution of the JRC in supporting such initia ...

JRC Scientific and Technical Research Report, providing an evaluation of status of stocks and fisheries in the North Sea and Kattegat. This document forms a report of work in progress of STECF EWG 12-02 which met in Rostock, Germany to provide an evaluati ...

Article presenting the most recent available results on the spatial distribution and the evolution of Congo Basin forests, based on the processing and analysis of a vast amount of satellite images acquired over the last two decades. This chapter presents ...

Article providing details of a multi-level stock-recruit analysis for six European herring stocks. Meta-analytic and multi-level stock-recruit analyses have traditionally focussed on the similar stock approach, but for a specic stock-recruit model. Fo ...

Examples of JRC research making the life of Europe's citizens safer and more secure in the area of soil. (2009) 2009 Leaflets Environment and climate change soil biodiversity IES jrc_leaflet_soil_research_de.pdf jrc_leaflet_soil_research_en.pdf jrc_l ...

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As the Commission's in-house science service, the Joint Research Centre's mission is to provide EU policies with independent, evidence-based scientific and technical support throughout the whole policy cycle. Working in close cooperation with policy Directorates-General, the JRC addresses key societal challenges while stimulating innovation through developing new methods, tools and standards, and sharing its know-how with the Member States, the scientific community and international partners.